Performing the Presentation Server installation silently

You can install the TrueSight Presentation Server unattended (a silent installation), which requires no user interaction during installation. You can perform a silent installation, as described in this topic, or you can use the installation wizard.

The following files are used to configure the silent installation of Presentation Server:

(Windows) server-silent-options-windows.txt
(Linux) server-silent-options-linux.txt

These files are located in the Disk1 directory of the Presentation Server installation file structure.

The following topics are included:

Related topics

System requirements

Preparing for the Presentation Server installation

Installation worksheet for TrueSight Presentation Server

Downloading the installation files

Performing the Presentation Server uninstallation

Role-based user access

Default users and user groups

Registering the component products with the Presentation Server

Before you begin

Before you begin the silent installation, complete the following items:

Ensure that the computer on which you are installing the product adheres to the hardware, operating system, platform, and software requirements listed in System requirements for Presentation Server.
Ensure that the computer on which you are installing the product adheres to the requirements described in Preparing for the Presentation Server installation.
Complete or review the information in the installation worksheet for the Presentation Server. The default values used during the installation process are entered in the installation worksheet.
Prepare an encrypted password for the database and Remedy Single Sign-On server.

To configure the silent install file

On the system where you want to install the Presentation Server, complete the following procedure:

Use a text editor to open the relevant (Windows) server-silent-options-windows.txt or (Linux) server-silent-options-linux.txt file.
Under the TrueSight Presentation Server Installation Location section, retain a default installation directory or specify a valid directory for the Presentation Server:
```
-P installLocation=<directory>
```
The <directory> is the installation location.
Examples
(Windows) -P installLocation=C:\Program Files\BMC Software\TrueSightPServer
(Linux) -P installLocation=/opt/bmc/TrueSightPServer
Under the Installation Features section is the Presentation Server component name.
```
# Install TrueSight Presentation Server
-A featureTrueSightPServer
```

Under the Installer Configuration section, enter the TrueSight Server installation configuration information.

If required, change the default port numbers. Ensure that the port number you enter is available.

-J QUICK_INSTALL_MODE=true
-J ASSO_SERVER_MODE=false
-J TrueSight_localhost_fqdn=
-J TrueSight_high_availability_enabled=0
-J TrueSight_high_availability_type=1
-J TrueSight_high_availability_server_pair_name=truesight
-J TrueSight_high_availability_primary_cache_port=7800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_primary_control_port=8800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_server_fqdn=
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_database_port=5432
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_cache_replication_port=7800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_control_port=8800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_configuration_file=
-J TrueSight_tomcat_http_port=80
-J TrueSight_tomcat_https_port=443
-J TrueSight_ElasticSearch_rest_port=9200
-J TrueSight_ElasticSearch_client_port=9300
-J TrueSight_cell_gateway_port=1900
-J TrueSight_database_username=
-J TrueSight_database_password=
-J TrueSight_database_confirm_password=
-J TrueSight_database_port=5432
-J TrueSight_sso_hostname=
-J TrueSight_sso_port=448
-J TrueSight_sso_password=
-J TrueSight_sso_protocol=https
-J IS_SSO_SERVER_CERTIFICATE=false
-J SSO_CERTIFICATE_HOME=

Presentation Server configuration descriptions

Parameter	Description
QUICK_INSTALL_MODE	Installation type setting, either Custom install or Advanced install. The default value is Advanced install.
TrueSight_localhost_fqdn	System's localhost Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
TrueSight_high_availability_enabled	Presentation Server High Availability (HA) option The default value (0) means that the HA option is disabled.
TrueSight_high_availability_type	High availability option setting, either Primary Server mode or Secondary Server mode. The default value (1) means that the Primary Server mode is enabled. The value (2) means that the Secondary Server mode is enabled. The Secondary server maintains a constantly updated cache memory of the Presentation Server activity.
TrueSight_high_availability_server_pair_name	Elasticsearch cluster name for one node (server), or more nodes, that holds all of the data, and provides federated indexing and search capabilities across all nodes. The default value for the cluster name is "truesight". It is recommended that you change this name to reflect the logical group name of the cluster.
Note If you do not use the default high availability port numbers, only use port numbers between 1024 and 65535.
TrueSight_high_availability_primary_cache_port	Number of the Primary Cache Replication port
TrueSight_high_availability_primary_control_port	Number of the Primary Control port
TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_server_fqdn	Secondary (standby) server host name Only applicable when set to Primary Server mode (TrueSight_high_availability_type =1).
TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_database_port	Number of the Secondary Server database port
TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_cache_replication_port	Number of the Secondary Server Cache Replication port
TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_control_port	Number of the Secondary Server Control port
TrueSight_high_availability_configuration_file	Secondary server configuration file Only applicable when set to Secondary server mode (TrueSight_high_availability_type =2). This file is the HA configuration file that is uploaded during the Presentation Server installation.
Notes For Windows systems, if you do not use the default port numbers, only use port numbers between 1 and 65535. For Linux systems, if you do not use the default port numbers, only use port numbers between 1024 and 65535.
TrueSight_tomcat_http_port	Apache Tomcat HTTP port number
TrueSight_tomcat_https_port	Apache Tomcat HTTPS port number
TrueSight_ElasticSearch_rest_port	Elasticsearch Representational state transfer (REST) port number
TrueSight_ElasticSearch_client_port	Elasticsearch client port number
TrueSight_cell_gateway_port	Cell Gateway port number
Notes The database user name and password cannot exceed 30 characters. For Windows systems, if you do not use the default database port number, only use port numbers between 1 and 65535. For Linux systems, if you do not use the default database port number, only use port numbers between 1024 and 65535.
TrueSight_database_username	User name for the PostgreSQL database
TrueSight_database_password	Encrypted user password
TrueSight_database_confirm_password	Re-enter the encrypted user password
TrueSight_database_port	Number of the database port
TrueSight_sso_hostname	Host's Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) for the Remedy Single Sign-On server
TrueSight_sso_port	Number of the Remedy Single Sign-On port. Use the port number of the Remedy Single Sign-On server installed on the system. The default port number is 448.
TrueSight_sso_protocol	HTTPS or HTTP. By default, the HTTPS option is set. The Remedy SSO is installed by default in HTTPS mode.
TrueSight_sso_password	BMC Remedy Single Sign-On server encrypted super user password. The Single Sign-On super user name is Admin.
IS_SSO_SERVER_CERTIFICATE	Remedy Single Sign-On server high availability (HA) option. The default value (false) means that the Single Sign-On server is not in the high availability mode.
SSO_CERTIFICATE_HOME	Path of the Remedy Single Sign-On SSL certificate.

Save and close the server-silent-options-windows.txt or server-silent-options-linux.txt file.

Example

The following example illustrates the settings of a silent installation configuration for the Presentation Server on a Windows operating system.

-P installLocation="C:\Program Files\BMC Software\TrueSightPServer"
-A featureTrueSightPServer
-J QUICK_INSTALL_MODE=true
-J ASSO_SERVER_MODE=false
-J TrueSight_localhost_fqdn=system
-J TrueSight_high_availability_enabled=0
-J TrueSight_high_availability_type=1
-J TrueSight_high_availability_server_pair_name=truesight
-J TrueSight_high_availability_primary_cache_port=7800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_primary_control_port=8800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_server_fqdn=
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_database_port=5432
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_cache_replication_port=7800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_secondary_control_port=8800
-J TrueSight_high_availability_configuration_file=Config_File.txt
-J TrueSight_tomcat_http_port=80
-J TrueSight_tomcat_https_port=443
-J TrueSight_ElasticSearch_rest_port=9200
-J TrueSight_ElasticSearch_client_port=9300
-J TrueSight_cell_gateway_port=1900
-J TrueSight_database_username=admin
-J TrueSight_database_password=DES\:097133405e7ea7a6bcc58bbe70ece4c2
-J TrueSight_database_confirm_password=DES\:097133405e7ea7a6bcc58bbe70ece4c2
-J TrueSight_database_port=5432
-J TrueSight_sso_hostname=rsso.bmc.com
-J TrueSight_sso_port=448
-J TrueSight_sso_protocol=https
-J TrueSight_sso_password=DES\:097133405e7ea7a6bcc58bbe70ece4c2
-J IS_SSO_SERVER_CERTIFICATE=true
-J SSO_CERTIFICATE_HOME=\home\bmc\cert.crt

To install the Presentation Server silently

In a command line, navigate to the Disk1 folder in the installation file structure.
Enter the following command:
- (Windows)
```
setup.exe -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE="<fullyqualifiedpath>\server-silent-options-windows.txt"
```
  where fullyQualifiedPath indicates the complete path where you have saved the server_install.options file. If the fullyQualifiedPath parameter contains a space in it, the path must be enclosed within double quotes.
- (Linux)
```
./setup.bin -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE="<fullyqualifiedpath>/server-silent-options-linux.txt"
```
  where fullyQualifiedPath indicates the complete path where you have saved the server_install.options file. If the fullyQualifiedPath parameter contains a space in it, the path must be enclosed within double quotes.

Notes

If the installation fails, you must uninstall what has been installed before rerunning the installation.

The Presentation Server installation log files are located in the following directories:
- (Windows) C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\truesightpserver_install_log.txt
- (Linux) /tmp/truesightpserver_install_log.txt

Encrypting a password for Presentation Server silent installation

The Maintenance Tool enables you to create an encrypted password that the Presentation Server requires for importing a KeyStore. You must use an encrypted password so that the KeyStore password is not exposed in the server-silent-options-windows.txt or server-silent-options-linux.txt file.

You can run the Maintenance Tool in a GUI or from the command line interface (CLI).

To encrypt a password by using the Maintenance Tool in a GUI (click here to expand steps)

To open the Maintenance Tool, go to the temporaryDirectory/Disk1/utility directory.
The temporaryDirectory is the place where you downloaded the installation files.
Run the TrueSightPServerMaintenanceTool utility and click the Encrypt tab.
Enter your password in the Password and Confirm Password fields and click Encrypt.
Copy and paste the value from the Encrypted Password field to the server-silent-options.txt file for the TrueSight_database_password parameter.
For example, if the encrypted password output is DES\:d70cbe3669602717ce66af37cce7ecf0, modify the TrueSight_database_password parameter as follows:
-J TrueSight_database_password=DES\:d70cbe3669602717ce66af37cce7ecf0

To encrypt a password by using the Maintenance Tool in the CLI (click here to expand steps)

To open the Maintenance Tool, go to the temporaryDirectory\Disk1\utility directory.
The temporaryDirectory is the place to which you downloaded the installation files.
Run the following command, entering your password for the -password and -confirm_password options:
- (Windows)
  TrueSightPServerMaintenanceTool.cmd -silent -encrypt -encrypt -password=<password> -confirm_password=<password>
- (Linux)
  ./TrueSightPServerMaintenanceTool.sh -silent -encrypt -encrypt -password=<password> -confirm_password=<password>
  Note
  
  For Linux installations, any password that includes special characters requires single quotation marks before and after the password. For example:
  ./TrueSightPServerMaintenanceTool.sh -silent -encrypt -encrypt -password='<password>' -confirm_password='<password>'
Copy and paste the encrypted password output to the server-silent-options.txt file for your silent installation.
For example, if the encrypted password output is DES\:d70cbe3669602717ce66af37cce7ecf0, modify the TrueSight_database_password parameter as follows:
-J TrueSight_database_password= DES\:d70cbe3669602717ce66af37cce7ecf0

Post-installation tasks

Perform the following tasks after installing the TrueSight Presentation Server:

After installing the component products, you must identify data providers as components in the TrueSight Presentation Server. This connection enables the TrueSight Presentation Server to receive data from its component parts. You can connect components as you add them, or when you finish adding all components.
(Linux) Register the TrueSight Presentation Server service for non-root users:
1. Log in as a root user on the computer on which the TrueSight Presentation Server is installed.
2. From the <installedDirectory>/truesightpserver/bin directory, run the following command to register the service:
  ./tssh service register <nonrootUserName>
3. (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server only) In addition, run the following command:
  chkconfig --add BMCTSPSSvc
  
  The BMCTSPSSvc service is located at /etc/init.d
4. Ensure that you have read and write permissions for the installedDirectory\truesightpserver\logs\tssh.log file before you run the following commands.
5. Check whether the service is registered by running the following command:
  service BMCTSPSSvc status
6. To start and stop the service, run the following commands:
  service BMCTSPSSvc start service BMCTSPSSvc stop
(Optional) On a multi-tenant TrueSight Presentation Server environment, you must enable the msp-deployment parameter. To enable, do the following:
1. Navigate to the folder based on the operating system on which you installed the TrueSight Presentation Server:
  - (Windows) <Install_Directory>\truesightpserver\modules\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes
  - (Linux) <Install_Directory>/truesightpserver/modules/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes
2. Open the rsso-agent.properties file.
3. Uncomment the msp-deployment=true parameter and save.
4. Navigate to the folder.
  - (Windows) <install_Directory>\truesightpserver\bin
  - (Linux) <install_Directory>/truesightpserver/bin
5. Run the following commands to restart the TrueSight Presentation Server:tssh server stop
  tssh server start
Notes
- The msp-deployment=true parameter is commented by default after installing or upgrading a single tenant TrueSight Presentation Server.
- The msp-deployment=true parameter is enabled by default after upgrading an existing multi-tenant TrueSight Presentation Server.
- The msp-deployment=true parameter must be uncommented (enabled) after installing a multi-tenant TrueSight Presentation Server.
Role-based user access to the features and components that compose TrueSight Operations Management is enabled by persona-based authorization profiles. Each authorization profile is associated with one or more Remedy Single Sign-On Server realms and comprises user groups, roles and permissions, and objects. These authorization profiles determine the features and objects that users can access and monitor. You can use the default authorization profiles as is, or you can modify their attributes. If necessary, you can also create authorization profiles.

If you have installed the TrueSight Presentation Server in the high-availability mode, you can configure aliases and hosts to access the TrueSight Presentation Server. For more information, see Configuring the Presentation Server for high availability.

Troubleshooting the silent installation

If a problem occurs during the silent installation, see the following topic: Error message displayed during silent installation of Presentation Server

Where to go from here

Verify the Presentation Server installation and operation